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RE: The Jurassic Coast Field Trip

2 hours ago

Thank you for that! What a remarkable life. Although I am a passionate feminist (in the old sense--wanting equal rights, not all the new issues recently incorporated into the movement) I think being a woman was the least of her difficulties. She was lucky to be alive at all. The odds of losing her in childhood or after (given her dangerous foraging exploits) were quite high.

Wow. I always appreciate my good fortune in life, but reading that bio really makes me pause and appreciate just how lucky I am.

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@azircon78

1 hour ago

Oh, Mary Anning's life should inspire many and did so, and still does. My wife being one :) By the way, she is a geologist as well..

I don't know if you are aware of this particular event...she literally died when she was 15 months old from a lightning strike..

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/26/did-lightning-strike-change-course-of-mary-anning-life#:~:text=On%2019%20August%201800%2C%20aged,grew%20up%20lively%20and%20intelligent.%E2%80%9D

On 19 August 1800, aged 15 months, she narrowly escaped death. She was taken to see an outdoor equestrian event by a family friend, Elizabeth Haskings, and two other women. The afternoon grew very sultry before “there was an awful peal of thunder” and Mary’s group ran for shelter under a tree before lightning struck and the three women were killed. Mary also appeared dead but she was rushed home, given a warm bath and miraculously revived. Her biographer, George Roberts, wrote: “Mary Anning was born a dull child but after the accident grew up lively and intelligent.”

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